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200 10$aIowa's geological past$b[electronic resource] $ethree billion years of earth history /$fWayne I. Anderson
210   $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$dc1998
215   $a1 online resource (440 p.)
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300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [385]-414) and index.
327   $aContents; Preface; 1. The Geologic Setting of Iowa; 2. Precambrian: The Oldest Rocks; 3. Cambrian: Sandy Marine Shelves and Shorelines; 4. Ordovician: Warm, Shallow Seas; 5. Silurian: Dolomite and Carbonate Mounds; 6. Devonian: A Variety of Marine Deposits; 7. Mississippian: Last of the Widespread Carbonate Seas; 8. Pennsylvanian: Coastal Swamps and Shallow Seas; 9. Mesozoic: Evaporite Deposits and the Last of the Inland Seas; 10. Cenozoic: Erosion Climaxed by the Great Ice Age; 11. Geology and Humankind; References; Index
330   $aIowa's rock record is the product of more than three billion years of  geological processes. The state endured multiple episodes of  continental glaciation during the Pleistocene Ice Age, and the last  glacier retreated from Iowa a mere (geologically speaking) twelve  thousand years ago. Prior to that, dozens of seas came and went, leaving  behind limestone beds with rich fossil records. Lush coal swamps, salty  lagoons, briny basins, enormous alluvial plains, ancient rifts, and  rugged Precambrian mountain belts all left their mark. In Iowa's  Geological Past, Wayne Anderson gi
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